That strong feeling of wishing for something. The intense magnetic pull that turns into an obsession. You know it when you feel it and it captivates you. It grabs you from within. That raw instinct that turns you inside out. It resists easy classification or a specific visual representation.
Art collectors know about that feeling; about risk, mystery, patience, surprise and happy accidents. Art collecting is about story-telling and identity. It may become a form of family heritage and legacy. Our belongings reveal much about who we are. It is about individuality and choice. To support living artists and to pay homage to past ones. To measure oneself against connoisseurship. To assert status. To be inspired.
I celebrate the risk-takers, the tastemakers, the unique, the generous, the thoughtful.
From the lush and sensuous to the instinctive, the psychological and even the belligerent desires…
Marlene Dumas, The Kiss, 2003 Oil on canvas 15 7/10 × 19 7/10 in 40 × 50 cm Image courtesy of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Marlene Dumas, Moshekwa, 2006
Oil on canvas
51 1/5 × 39 2/5 in
130 × 100 cm
Image courtesy of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Marlene Dumas, Naomi, 1995
Oil on canvas
51 1/5 × 39 2/5 in
130 × 100 cm
Image courtesy of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Barbara Kruger FACE IT (Yellow), 2007 Pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag, in artist’s frame 43 × 33 in 109.2 × 83.8 cm Edition 10/10
John Stezaker, Shadow 13, 2014 Silkscreen 68 7/20 × 57 12/25 in 173.6 × 146 cm Image courtesy of The Approach, London
John Stezaker, Shadow 1, 2014 Silkscreen57 12/25 × 75 49/50 in146 × 193 cmImage courtesy of The Approach, London
John Stezaker, Untitled, 2008
Collage
10 1/5 × 8 in
26 × 20.4 cm
Image courtesy of The Approach, London
John Stezaker, Portrait VI, 2015
Collage
10 9/10 × 8 in
27.8 × 20.4 cm
Image courtesy of The Approach, London
Jorinde Voigt, 5 Cavallini – Sequences, 2015 Ink, gold, oil pastel, pastel, pencil on paper 86 5/8 × 178 in 220 × 452.1 cm Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Jorinde Voigt, Water-Study II, 2016
Ink, oil crayon, pastel, pencil on paper
45 7/10 × 34 3/10 in
116 × 87 cm
Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Jorinde Voigt, Water-Study IV, 2016
Ink, oil crayon, pastel, pencil on paper
45 7/10 × 34 3/10 in
116 × 87 cm
Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Jorinde Voigt, Water-Study VII, 2016
Ink, oil crayon, pastel, pencil on paper
45 7/10 × 34 3/10 in
116 × 87 cm
Image courtesy of KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Matt Connors, Red/Blue/Purple/Black/Blue Small Bottom, 2015 Acrylic, colored pencil on canvas 26 × 21 × 9/10 in 66 × 53.3 × 2.3 cm Image courtesy of Xavier Hufkens Gallery
Matt Connors, Ingot Index, 2016
Laminate on wood
16 × 22 × 1 1/2 in
40.6 × 55.9 × 3.7 cm
Image courtesy of Xavier Hufkens Gallery
Matt Connors, Closed Bottom (warms), 2015
Acrylic on Plywood
29 × 23 × 4 in
73.7 × 58.4 × 10.2 cm
Image courtesy of Xavier Hufkens Gallery
